Absence Quotes - Page 40

• The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace, and most important of all, complete absence of grasping. The diminishing of grasping in yourself is a sign that you are becoming freer of yourself. And the more you experience this freedom, the clearer the sign that the ego and the hopes and fears that keep it alive are dissolving, and the closer you will come to the infinitely generous "wisdom of egolessness."

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Peace, Real, Lying

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• It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Religion, Tragedy

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• Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Fruit, Renunciation

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• There's a tremendously satisfying freedom associated with weightlessness. It's challenging in the absence of traction or leverage, and it requires thoughtful readjustment. I found the experience of weightlessness to be one of the most fun and enjoyable, challenging and rewarding, experiences of spaceflight. Returning to Earth brings with it a great sense of heaviness, and a need for careful movement. In some ways it's not too different from returning from a rocking ocean ship.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Fun, Ocean, Thoughtful

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• Acting is the absence of acting. It's believing in the truth of the moment you are creating.

  Gary Busey

  Believe, Creating, Acting

  "An Interview With Gary Busey". Interview with Meagan Evans, 11thhouronline.com. March 11, 2010.

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• Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of "me" based on thought and emotions. So ego is there in the absence of a witnessing presence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• What's amazing to me is how many of the issues facing women in the ancient world still linger today. Take Odysseus' wife, Penelope, a brilliant, resourceful woman who ends up in a terrible situation: in her husband's absence, she is being held hostage in her own home by men who claim to be courting her. She tries to make them leave, but because she's a woman they refuse, blaming their bad behavior on her desirability.

  Madeline Miller

  Husband, Home, Men

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The nation as the horizon of an identity that you want to come into being as a fundamental absence of something that is compromised, something that needs to be rescued or made - these matters preoccupy the third world writer. It is seductive for a Marxist understanding of literary practice and production in the sense that it says that material culture determines literary output.

  Mark McMorris

  Practice, Seductive, Understanding

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict.

  Barack Obama

  Peace, Kings, Powerful

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• My father's death took me to a place I had never been and a place I had never left. In his absence, I've had to rely more on myself.

  Gustavo Perez Firmat

  Father, Rely, Left

  Source: www.gustavoperezfirmat.com

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• Inspiration comes from everywhere always. But it's strongest in love and in its absence.

  Jason Reeves

  Inspiration, Strongest

  Source: itcouldbemainstream.blogspot.com

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• I went to Berlin for a year and a half, and that's where I learned about culture and art and everything. Before that, I lived in total absence of culture. I come from a house where there was nothing like reading or art.

  Lea Seydoux

  Art, Reading, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Beauty, Moving, Heart

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “The City and the Stars”, p.33, RosettaBooks

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• With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!

  Thomas Moore

  Sympathy, Broken Heart, Pain

  Thomas Moore (1835). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Including Melodies, Ballads, Etc”, p.40

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• The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.

  Thomas Moore

  Music, Garden, Soul

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• Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.

  Thomas Moore

  Silence, Soul, Sound

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• I could have been a Judge, but I never had the Latin for the judgin'. I never had it, so I'd had it, as far as being a judge was concerned... I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.

  Peter Cook

  Latin, Fall, Coal Miners

  British comedy stage revue "Beyond the Fringe" written and performed by Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, and Jonathan Miller ("Sitting on the Bench", 1961), 1960-1966.

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• In the last stages of a final illness, we need only the absence of pain and the presence of family.

  Helen Hayes

  Pain, Finals, Needs

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• We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people

  John Adams

  People, Moral, Constitution

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• For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance.

  Ben Nelson

  Fall, Doctors, May

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• It's increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose - or of a moral language - within government, media or business, could become one of the most dangerous own goals for capitalism and for freedom.

  Elisabeth Murdoch

  Government, Media, Goal

  "Elisabeth Murdoch Revolts Against Family In MacTaggart Speech" by Paul Sandle, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2012.

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• I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.

  Peter Cook

  Fall, Coal Miners, Judging

  British comedy stage revue "Beyond the Fringe" written and performed by Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, and Jonathan Miller ("Sitting on the Bench", 1961), 1960-1966.

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• And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty, one must learn the rigors of acceptance. Capitalize it: Acceptance. I needed to accept what was put before me--be it a watery grave in Ireland's only natural fjord, or a return to the city and its grayer intensities, or a wordless exile in some steaming Cambodian swamp hole, or poems or no poems, or children or not, lovers or not, illness or otherwise, success or its absence. I would accept all that was put in my way, from here on through until I breathed my last.

  Kevin Barry

  Children, Acceptance, Views

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• True humility is not in the absence of confidence but strength restrained.

  Bill Johnson

  Humility, True Humility

  Kris Vallotton, Bill Johnson (2017). “The Supernatural Ways of Royalty: Discovering Your Rights and Privileges of Being a Son or Daughter of God”, p.98, Destiny Image Publishers

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• The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how scared you are.

  Martha Beck

  Determination, Heart, Differences

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.181, Harmony

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